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An Italian philosopher once said that a great man makes his own good luck. What he means is that when good luck comes, a great man knows how to seize the opportunity and 1 advantage of it.

There is a story about Bill Gates, the 2 of Microsoft that proves this. One day an executive from a large computer company came to his 3 looking for someone who had 4 a new operating system for computers. He didn't know too much about the inventor or his operating system, and he wasn't 5 sure of the inventor's address. At that time everything in the computer business was so new and so disorganized 6 normal business procedures were almost unknown.

It 7 that the inventor lived in a home next to Gates, but he was not at home when the executive came by. He may have been 8 at a meeting or shopping for new equipment. The executive, 9 no one home, wasn't sure what to do, but he didn't want to waste his trip, so he stopped by Gates' house to ask him if he knew anything about the inventor's system and 10 it worked.

Since Gates was working on very 11 software, most other people in his place would have spoken 12 with the executive, told him that he was working on something else, and then forgotten about the whole thing. Gates, however, saw a（n） 13 and jumped on it. He told the executive that 14 he was working on his own operating system （he wasn't） and he would be 15 to discuss it with the executive in a few weeks.

After the executive 16 to a meeting to be held a few weeks later, Gates quickly went out 17 for someone who had a workable new operating system. As an engineer he had a better idea than the executive about what he needed, and when he found someone with an operating system that he liked, he made modifications（修改） 18 on what the executive told him. His meeting a few weeks later was a great 19 , and Gates' new operating system was sold to the large company and the sale became the foundation of Microsoft. Within two decades Gates was the richest man in the world. He 20 his own luck by seizing an unexpected opportunity.

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